Tag: finger paint

The last couple of days the Education Action Group’s Kyle Olson has been freaking out over on his Twitter site about my salary and my job.

“$100,000 to teach kids to finger paint.”

Oh. Later he added clay moulding to my job description.

Like I should be ashamed of my salary, which is far less than I would be making in the private sector at my age and level of education.

Or that I should be ashamed at being a K-5 Art teacher.

Well. You know. The Arts.

I actually do finger paint with the kindergarten kids. Olson should try it. It might calm him down.

But I stand by the value of a quality art program for every student. It is harder and harder to fit it into the school day that Olson would like: Testing and then more testing.

As for my salary. It’s good, but I earn it. We’re so not ashamed of what we earn that our Association publishes our salary schedule on our non-password website. Olson would like you to believe he had to go internet searching to find out what we make. No need, Kyle. It’s right out there in the open.

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